hasident barack obama pledged to president clinton and has sent secretary of state john today.o kiev >> a brazen act of aggression in violation of international law, in violation of the yuan charter, in violation of the helsinki final act, in violation of the 1997 ukraine-russia basing agreement, russia has engaged in military -- in a military act of aggression against another country. >> we are on the brink of a disaster. there was no any reason for the russian federation to invade ukraine. get reaction to all of this again. the commodity space is the most sensitive to all of this. obviously, the price of oil taking a hit. just put this into context, first and foremost. you don't see the currency being affected. the dollar is actually a little bit stronger. ofides that, we see a lot the contracts continuing to trade higher. us look at nymex, brent. at nymex, brent. that $1340 an ounce. that is what you have for nymex, 10 3.80. this is what you have for brand. dust about at the highest level so far. and let's look at gold. it has been a very good year. 11.5% from the start of this ye